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1. forrettindafeminismi
   Member
   Mar 26, 2012, 8:37 PM

   Hello,

   I've noticed for a few weeks time that stats for traffic from search engine's is inconsistent. For example today:

   Referrers box shows: search engines 14

   However in the search engine terms box the sum of the list is 8 hits and to complicate things further, if you count the individual line items give a sum of 11.

   Often times the Search engine terms box has about half of the number of search engine hits in the referrers box.

   Is this a universal issue or is there some explanation to this?

   All the best,
   Sigurður

2. timethief
   Member
   Mar 26, 2012, 8:46 PM

   Is this the blog you are referring to? http://forrettindafeminismi.wordpress.com/
   Have you read the site stats entry in the support documentation?
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#referrers
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#additional-info

3. timethief
   Member
   Mar 26, 2012, 8:47 PM

   Some search engines don’t reveal search terms for privacy reasons. That’s why we don’t always know which search terms were used by visitors who arrived at your site from a search engine. When we don’t know the search terms, we show them as “Unknown search terms”.

4. forrettindafeminismi
   Member
   Mar 26, 2012, 8:51 PM

   Hi, Yes this is the blog and I have read the referred documentation. One of the line items in the search engine terms box is "unknown search terms". I would have expected the number in this box to add up to the total number of search engine referrals as listed in the referrals box?

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